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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 months ago (11 children)
[–] Depress_Mode 50 points 2 months ago (8 children)

In his 1953 autobiography, Danish explorer Peter Freuchen claimed that in 1926, he became trapped in a blizzard while running a dog team and was forced to take shelter under his sled for 30 hours while snow built up and froze around him. When he tried to emerge, he found he was entombed in ice and unable to break free with his hands alone. Thinking quickly, he took a shit right there, shaped the turd into a chisel, and allowed it to freeze solid. He then claims he was able to use his newly made tool to chip his way free and make it back to camp. Peter was the only witness to his supposed escape. The study mentions it's based on an Inuit ethnographic account, however. Maybe Peter, having spent much time in the Arctic with Inuit peoples simply took the story for himself. With the runners of the study finding that they were unable to replicate such a technique, it lends credibility to the claim that story may have been fabricated.

[–] ohwhatfollyisman 32 points 2 months ago (6 children)

With the runners of the study finding that they were unable to replicate such a technique, it lends credibility to the claim that story may have been fabricated.

ah, but did they eat what he ate beforehand?

[–] Depress_Mode 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I actually wondered the same thing while I was writing lol. Further research is clearly warranted 🧑‍🔬🔬

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

How would you put 'person who tested various diets and eating habits for the best possible shit to freeze and pick through ice with' on a resume?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
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